AND, FTR, it's too damn cold this morning. 48F is just wrong.
It's like 10 here. I was all excited, thinking, "Finally, it feels like winter for once." Winters in Chicago usually feel too mild to me.
Angel: You know, I killed my actual dad. It was one of the first things I did when I became a vampire. Wesley: I hardly see how that's the same situation. Angel: Yeah. I didn't really think that one through.
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
tommyrot - Dec 23, 2004 6:05:48 am PST #201 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
DXMachina - Dec 23, 2004 6:08:17 am PST #202 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Slide projectors are so 1970s and I can't find one at my school to use and I don't want to buy one.
Heh. I have a standard slide projector (bought in the 70's), so when we found a stack of slide carousels of my grandfather's slides amongst my late aunt's belongings, I took them home to sort through them all. I didn't take the projector, because I already had one. Turns out these carousels are from a time before slide carousels were standardized. None of them fit my projector. I have to pull them all out and transfer them to my old carousel to view them.
DCJensen - Dec 23, 2004 6:08:36 am PST #203 of 10002
All is well that ends in pizza.
My microwave oven just died. It started making funny noises, and I look to see big clouds of smoke coming from the kitchen. So I have the windows open and a fan blowing the smoke outside, despite the cold temperature....
Tommyrot, have you done anything with this?
Generally that symptom means that a piece of food or some other material has gotten inside the small flexible screen over the magnetron inside of your microwave.
If you look in there, you can sometimes take off the screen, clean off the screen by scrubbing the charred stuff off, and put it back in. Then test the microwave briefly with a piece of bread or something else which you would be able to 1. find out if it still smokes or 2. find out if it works.
Rick - Dec 23, 2004 6:10:42 am PST #204 of 10002
Slide projectors are so 1970s and I can't find one at my school to use and I don't want to buy one.
Our public library lends them out. But then, we're usually about 30 years behind out here in the midwest.
tommyrot - Dec 23, 2004 6:14:04 am PST #205 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Tommyrot, have you done anything with this?
Naw, I was gonna throw it away. The smoke that was comming out had a burnt plastic smell to it. So there must be something going on besides food burning.
Kalshane - Dec 23, 2004 6:14:56 am PST #206 of 10002
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
It's like 10 here. I was all excited, thinking, "Finally, it feels like winter for once." Winters in Chicago usually feel too mild to me.
So this is all your fault, then. So noted.
tommyrot - Dec 23, 2004 6:17:15 am PST #207 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
So this is all your fault, then. So noted.
Heh. Must be my Finnish blood. Which would also explain my fondness for vodka.
JohnSweden - Dec 23, 2004 6:18:57 am PST #208 of 10002
I can't even.
So we got our snow last night, and now it is raining. This bodes ill for locomotion of any kind. I'm hoping it will have stopped this nonsense by tomorrow.
Yes, I'm at work today, and we're in for a half day tomorrow. Then I fly. If the planes are going up and down in a reliable way.
Kalshane - Dec 23, 2004 6:20:43 am PST #209 of 10002
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Heh. My Finnish blood is going "It could be warmer." I mean, it's bearable, but I prefer 10 to 15 degrees warmer and snow.
Vodka is hit or miss with me. I love some of it and hate others. Though I haven't done enough testing to know which brands I like.
Kat - Dec 23, 2004 6:22:41 am PST #210 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
HA!! Pffffft. It's on record as being -7 here, with a "feels like" of -24. I'll bet it's actually more like -14. And no snow to insulate any of it. I mock your 48F.
Go ahead and mock away. After an Ohio childhood, my blood had thinned out to a nice Southern California level and now 48 feels like, well, not -7, but maybe 10.
I'm greatly reassured by the fact that by noon or so, it should be up to about 65F.
My next class to teach is on the Middle Ages (the one I have slides for). I was going to do just Feudalism and the Church, but maybe I'll reach back and do the Byzantine empire, mainly so I can play "Istanbul (Not Constantinople). I'm just worried I won't have enough time.